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Below, check out GuitarWorld.com's exclusive premiere of a new guitar play-through video by Avatar. The song, "Hail The Apocalypse," is the title track from the band's new album, which will be released in May.

Today, GuitarWorld.com presents the music video for "Jekyll Better Hyde" by New York City's IKILLYA. The song is from the band's new album, Vae Victis, which will be released April 29 through Megaforce Records.

I start in the seventh-position B minor pentatonic box pattern with some string skipping and hybrid picking, using my pick-hand middle finger in conjunction with the pick. I hit the first note, on the low E string, with a down-stroke, hammer-on the second note, then pluck the third note, on the D string, with the middle finger, followed by another hammer-on.

How cool would it be to come across the legendary Eddie Van Halen doing a guitar demo at a NAMM Show? It happened in 1996, as this just-uploaded (March 14) video shows. The Van Halen guitarist was on hand to demo Peavey's Wolfgang Standard model guitar.

As you can see in the video below, the latest edition of VH1 Classic's That Metal Show featured none other than Yngwie Malmsteen. Malmsteen, who performed the role of the show's house band, launched into his patented riffs as the program went in and out of commercial breaks.

On beat three of bar 2, I flip my fret hand over the neck and perform the arpeggios on top of the fretboard. Here, I use my thumb [indicated by the t in the finger prompts below the tab] to fret the low E [sixth string, 12th fret] so I can make the fret-hand transition over the neck without skipping a beat.

Black Label Society have released the official music video for "My Dying Time," a track off their new album, Catacombs of the Black Vatican — and you can check it out below. The album, the band's first disc of new material since 2010’s Order of the Black, will be released April 8.